In this provocative and timely new book, Alain Touraine explores the question of how we might live together in a truly globalized world society. Rejecting the seductive metaphor of a global melting pot, Touraine mounts a powerful attack on the idea that we now live together as equals, sharing the same social and cultural values. If anything, he argues, our differences are being...(展开全部)

In this provocative and timely new book, Alain Touraine explores the question of how we might live together in a truly globalized world society. Rejecting the seductive metaphor of a global melting pot, Touraine mounts a powerful attack on the idea that we now live together as equals, sharing the same social and cultural values. If anything, he argues, our differences are being...(展开全部)

In this book, a leading French social thinker grapples with the gap between the tendency toward globalization of economic relations and mass culture and the increasingly sectarian nature of our social identities as members of ethnic, religious, or national groups. Though at first glance, it might seem as if the answer to the question "Can we live together?" is that we already d...(展开全部)

A young woman is transformed by a magical journey from the dark ages to modern times, from brooding medieval forests to bustling Constantinople. Halla is turned out of her father’s castle by her new stepmother. Her nurse transforms herself into a bear to look after Halla. This is just the first of the wondrous and natural changes in Naomi Mitchison’s magical 1952 novel. Travel ...(展开全部)

The book we need NOW to avoid a social recession, Murthy’s prescient message is about the importance of human connection, the hidden impact of loneliness on our health, and the social power of community. Humans are social creatures: In this simple and obvious fact lies both the problem and the solution to the current crisis of loneliness. In his groundbreaking book, the 19th su...(展开全部)

[美]罗伯特·D.帕特南(Robert D.Putnam) 1941年生，美国当代杰出的政治社会学家，曾担任美国政治学会主席。哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院前院长、马尔金公共政策讲席教授，美国国家科学院院士。2006年荣获美国政治学界最高奖约翰·斯凯特奖，2013年获美国国家人文勋章。他担任过多届美国总统、英国首相、法国总统以及多个国家政府首脑的资深顾问。已著书15部，被译为20多种语言，在比较政治、美国政治、国际关系和政治理论领域均有卓越原创贡献。代表作《使民主运转起来》和《独自打保龄》是过去半个世纪英文学界引证最多的社会科学著作，在我国学界和思想界也有广泛影响。 [美]谢琳·罗姆尼·加勒特(Shaylyn Romney Garrett) 毕业于哈佛大学政府系，作家、演说家和社会改革家。是阿斯彭研究所倡议的“织网：社会结构项目”的创始人。2011年，荣获德...(展开全部)

[美]罗伯特·D.帕特南(Robert D.Putnam) 1941年生，美国当代杰出的政治社会学家，曾担任美国政治学会主席。哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院前院长、马尔金公共政策讲席教授，美国国家科学院院士。2006年荣获美国政治学界最高奖约翰·斯凯特奖，2013年获美国国家人文勋章。他担任过多届美国总统、英国首相、法国总统以及多个国家政府首脑的资深顾问。已著书15部，被译为20多种语言，在比较政治、美国政治、国际关系和政治理论领域均有卓越原创贡献。代表作《使民主运转起来》和《独自打保龄》是过去半个世纪英文学界引证最多的社会科学著作，在我国学界和思想界也有广泛影响。 [美]谢琳·罗姆尼·加勒特(Shaylyn Romney Garrett) 毕业于哈佛大学政府系，作家、演说家和社会改革家。是阿斯彭研究所倡议的“织网：社会结构项目”的创始人。2011年，荣获德...(展开全部)

Consider Facebookit’s human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them. In Alone Together , MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to d...(展开全部)

Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection leads to a new solitude. We turn to new technology to fill the void, but as MIT technology and society specialist Sherry...(展开全部)

Consider Facebookit’s human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them. In Alone Together , MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to d...(展开全部)